WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major U.S. business lobbying groups are asking Congress to pass measures that would protect companies large and small from coronavirus-related lawsuits when states start to lift pandemic restrictions and businesses begin to reopen. Workers disinfect machinery at the start of their shift at Green Circuits as the company, an essential business, adapts
Courtesy of Collina Strada When the call came for designers to begin creating masks and protective gear for healthcare workers, fashion names from LVMH to L.L. Bean stepped in to help. With masks becoming a requirement in many public settings, our favorite up-and-coming fashion brands are have begun offering inventive options that go beyond a
Breaking News Just call Rob Gronkowski the pancake man … ’cause he’s flipping AGAIN on retirement talk — this time saying he’s “not totally done” with football after all!!! The NFL’s greatest-ever tight end has been in a tug-o-war almost since the day he quit the NFL in 2019 … going back and forth on
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A wondrous lineage of crocodile relatives that developed into fast-swimming seagoing predators at a time when dinosaurs dominated the land adapted to life in the open ocean with a pivotal evolutionary modification also present in whales. A life reconstruction of the Jurassic Period marine crocodile relative Cricosaurus is seen in this image
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Monday he will suspend all immigration into the United States temporarily through an executive order in response to the coronavirus outbreak and to protect American jobs. U.S. President Donald Trump points to a reporter as he answers questions during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the
(Reuters) – A historic rout in oil markets sent U.S. crude prices plummeting to as much as minus $40 a barrel as traders rushed to get rid of unwanted stocks with storage capacity already overflowing amid a coronavirus-induced demand collapse. FILE PHOTO: An employee holds a sample of crude oil at the Yarakta oilfield, owned
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Hong Kong bookseller who fled to Taiwan amid fears of Chinese persecution was attacked on Tuesday by a man who threw red paint at him, just days before he was set to open a new bookshop in Taipei. Lam Wing-kee, who sought refuge in Taiwan last year after he was detained
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Two U.S. warships are operating in the South China Sea, the Navy said on Tuesday, with three regional security sources saying they were near an area of a standoff between China and Malaysia. The Haiyang Dizhi 8, a Chinese government research ship, was spotted last week conducting a survey close to
Because self-love is the best love Long gone are the days when lingerie had the primary function of attracting the male gaze. In 2020, sisters are doing it for themselves, creating underthings that support, enhance and delight the wearer. Here are 16 female-led lingerie brands that put women first. Female-Led Lingerie Brands 1 / 16
[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Season 5 finale of Better Call Saul, “Something Unforgivable.” Read at your own risk!] Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) walked through fire — or at least started one — in order to be free of Lalo (Tony Dalton), and it backfired. In Better Call Saul‘s Season 5 finale, Nacho
In the time since we last heard from Glassio, the New York indie pop project has scaled down to just one member in songwriter-producer Sam R. But even as a one-man-band, the music is just as dreamy and worthy of playlist space, as evidenced by new single “A Million Doubts”. Taken from a forthcoming debut
(Reuters) – From tinkling harmonies as the virus disarms cells to clashing and stormy as it replicates, U.S. scientists have translated the novel coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to better understand the pathogen. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is preparing to apply for regulatory approval in Indonesia to launch mobile payments in partnership with three local digital fintech firms, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats and Republicans feuded on Monday over who was responsible for delay even as they worked on details of a possible $450 billion-plus deal to provide more aid to small businesses and hospitals hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to the media
FILE PHOTO: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) speaks with reporters ahead of the weekly policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate Republican and a Democrat proposed a $500 billion rescue package for state and municipal governments on Monday, as it became increasingly
A man, wearing a protective face mask, rides past people queuing outside a Biocoop grocery in Fontenay-sous-Bois as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in France, April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau PARIS (Reuters) – France on Monday officially registered more than 20,000 deaths from the coronavirus, becoming the fourth country to pass that threshold